Once you meet Nellie Ferguson you won’t easily forget her or her family. Through the sounds of laughter when talking to her, comes the love she has for her late-husband Johnnie Ferguson Sr. and the …
Barbara: Four Generations, One Family Home
Barbara Hudson wanted to own a home; not just any home, though: her home. Nineteen years ago, Barbara’s brother and the owner of a stately home on west Galena Street relocated, renting the property to …
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The Cervantes Family’s Labor of Love
The Cervantes family purchased a donated bank foreclosure with ACTS for $5,500 last winter and worked for four months to complete their home rehab projects. They received a $25,000 ACTS rehab loan to …
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Patryce
Patryce is a thirty-something mother of four, who closed August 7th, 2015 on the purchase of her new home. At first, she says, she didn’t get it. “It seemed surreal. It wasn’t until Sam [rehab …
The Gomez and Vang Families
In 1955, a hard-working immigrant from Mexico named Fidel and his wife, Eloisa, bought a large duplex in what was once a large German immigrant community in the neighborhood of St. Michael’s Church …
Aliza Scott
Aliza Scott could only think of one way to celebrate when she officially became the owner of a city-tax foreclosed duplex on N. 33rd St. "I had to dance," she said. And why not? For less than she was …
